I just had a realization, when @Mountain jew replied to a post of mine on another thread.
He mentioned that technology is frozen in time and that modern technology like cars and playstations are essentially the same as ten yrs ago.
I found this topic interesting, and I find it also really dystopian. We have reached to a point that our technology is advanced enough to benefit us, and that it's little past the sweet spot (the ideal technology benefit ratio was in 2000s before smartphones).
For example, let's look at the current top 10 tech trends given by a website.
emeritus.org
Most of it are related to faster computing and AI, which means, less jobs and more production for the same pay, worse, due to reduced demand, your pay will actually be reduced.
Automation is getting to a point where it will replace a lot more jobs than it gives; when horse taxis were replaced by cars, there were many new jobs for each lost - the whole breeding and feeding infrastructure was replaced by fueling infrastructure, etc.
AIs on the other hand, will dramatically replace jobs; With 10 developers, you only need one senior to check the code created by AI, likewise for factory machines.
It also does not help that helpful and beneficial technologies by independent (non corp) inventors are being suppressed. Cheap insulins, water based fuel, proposed cancer treatments....their creators have gotten into 'accidents'.
The future is really dystopian, and it is either we live increasingly worse lives, or crapitalism is replaced.
He mentioned that technology is frozen in time and that modern technology like cars and playstations are essentially the same as ten yrs ago.
I found this topic interesting, and I find it also really dystopian. We have reached to a point that our technology is advanced enough to benefit us, and that it's little past the sweet spot (the ideal technology benefit ratio was in 2000s before smartphones).
For example, let's look at the current top 10 tech trends given by a website.
Top 10 Tech Trends 2023 Has to Offer: A Guide
Explore the top 10 tech trends that have and will continue to shape the future in our comprehensive blog on tech trends 2023
emeritus.org
Most of it are related to faster computing and AI, which means, less jobs and more production for the same pay, worse, due to reduced demand, your pay will actually be reduced.
Automation is getting to a point where it will replace a lot more jobs than it gives; when horse taxis were replaced by cars, there were many new jobs for each lost - the whole breeding and feeding infrastructure was replaced by fueling infrastructure, etc.
AIs on the other hand, will dramatically replace jobs; With 10 developers, you only need one senior to check the code created by AI, likewise for factory machines.
It also does not help that helpful and beneficial technologies by independent (non corp) inventors are being suppressed. Cheap insulins, water based fuel, proposed cancer treatments....their creators have gotten into 'accidents'.
The future is really dystopian, and it is either we live increasingly worse lives, or crapitalism is replaced.
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